Bit of fun....how old is your oldest towel?

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I've towels we got as a house warming gift in 1999 and they're still going strong.

Some of my towels are inherited from my late grandmother and are older than I am (late 40s)

I have a towel my mother bought when I started sailing at 14. I'm 61.

A pair from British Home Stores when we bought our first house in 1996. Still in very regular use and perfect condition

My mum didn't pack a towel on holiday in 2001 so bought a new one in Salou, and still uses it today

Our towels are all fairly old I think.

Those people replacing the all every few years - why?

I'm now wondering about getting my teens a nice towel each so they can have one they "remember" like some on here have! Where do people get towels? Supermarket?

My beach towel was bought for me at 15, I'm 50

A couple of large towels that belonged to my mother, sent from the USA in the sixties/seventies when the quality was far better there.
She didn’t use them much - “too good” - I use them for sunbathing.

My Christie towels I bought in 2000 are still going strong and in very good condition, despite considerable use.

Wow I've just gone down a towel rabbit hole.

My big ones it seems are beach towels.

There are bath towels and bath sheets and these are different sizes. Again different sizes to beach towels.

I never knew!

My oldest one is about 35 years old, mine from when I was little. Still in regular use and only a few little thin holey bits. I have another blue and green one with fish on which is a bit younger, 30 years old maybe, which is falling apart. The hems unraveled, then fell off, and now it frays. I'm not supposed to use it...but I still do.

Glad it's not just me that's sentimental about towels. DH thinks it's odd.

I suspect around 2012 when DH and I both relocated (separately but met shortly afterwards)

Still own and in decent nick, a towel from 1990. Bought from debenhams.

Only recently got rid of a ancient Christys towel from circa 1980 or earlier.
I've bought other Christy towels and they havent lasted as long.

I read on a blog that towels should be replaced every 4 or 5 years. Phshaw

DH's grandfather's school towel, complete with name tape. Relegated to general mopping towel now but must be from the 1930s.

Bedeck have some very different from the norm towels.

https://www.bedeckhome.com/bath.html

My oldest towel is a hand towel with Hers embroidered on it. Given to me as a pair, the other had Him in it, when I became engaged in 1966.

I ditched the Him - both towel and bloke!

I now use the towel only when colouring my hair so it's a bit naff!

My oldest I got from a catalogue shop in 2004 so 20 years? Got it for a holiday to Bulgaria. It’s a beach towel but thick do it gets daily use and hasn’t aged at all really!

Until recently I had a couple that I brought with me when I moved in 97. They were already a few years old then!

I regularly use a towel I took to university in 1982.

Our garden toilet hand towels are a pair my parents were given as as a wedding present in 1957.

On a visit to DD recently I was amused to see her cartoon character primary school swimming towel from about 2003 in their otherwise very tasteful bathroom.

1987. It was my school towel. It still has my name tag sewn on it. ❤️

Still got my mum's old swimming towel with her name tag stitched on. It must be from 1965... so nearly 60 years old.

One with my name tape sewn on it from when I started boarding school on 1981...

I have some hand towels that belonged to my parents. Potentially from late 60s as I always remember them being there.

wedding present towels 1998
also a towel from 1994 but i think this is used for drying ddog

I have a couple of wedding present towels from 1995, they have gone a bit scratchy but I use them as hand towels. I also have but don't use a few tea towels that were my late mils they look a bit 70s.

just remembered I kept my dc baby towels from the 90s

I've had my swimming towel since I was at school, so it dates to at least the mid 80s.